. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . voked. After the prayer,the honaaite and his vicar sit upon their folded blankets near the fire-place, where a low fire burns, and with a supply of tobacco and cornhusks content themselves with cigarettes until the opening of theevening ceremony. By 9 oclock the Snake society was joined iu the chai-an-ni-kai (cer-emonial chamber) archaic, Su-8er-ra-kai by the Kapina, it being theprerogative of the honaaite of one organization to invite other societiesto take part in his ceremonies. They formed in line,
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . voked. After the prayer,the honaaite and his vicar sit upon their folded blankets near the fire-place, where a low fire burns, and with a supply of tobacco and cornhusks content themselves with cigarettes until the opening of theevening ceremony. By 9 oclock the Snake society was joined iu the chai-an-ni-kai (cer-emonial chamber) archaic, Su-8er-ra-kai by the Kapina, it being theprerogative of the honaaite of one organization to invite other societiesto take part in his ceremonies. They formed in line, sitting back ofthe altar; the honaaite being in the rear of the central slat figure,which symbolized the honaaite of the cult society of the cloud other members were seated in the rear, as near as could be, of The uncolored illnstrations are from photo^aphs by Miss May S. Clark, the interior views beingby flash light. The writer is pleased to congratolate Miss Clark for having succeeded under themoat trying circumstances. Bureau of EthnoloOy. Eleventh Annual Report Plate XIII. Drawn by Mary Irvin Wright HA- CHA- MO- Nl WITH PLUMES ATTACHED. STEVENSON.] RAIN CEREMONIAL. 79 the corresponding symbolic figures of the cloud and lightning boy of 8 years of age, who lay sleeping as the writer enteredthe room, was aroused to take his position in the line, and a boy of 4years, who had been sleeping upon a sheepskin, spread on the iioor be-tween two of the women, was led from the room by one of them, as hehad not entered the degree when he might hear the songs and see themaking of the medicine water. The women formed right angles with the line of men, four sitting onthe north side of the room and four on the south side. The elderfemale member sat at the west end of the line on the north side of theroom. The men wore breechcloths of white cotton; the honaaite andthe tiiimoni wore embroidered Tusayan kilts for breechcloths. Thehair was done up as usual, but no headkerc
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